Publications

Xiaofan Liang (2026). The cost of connectivity: Network tradeoffs in subway expansion and historic street preservation. Journal of Transport and Land Use, 19(1), 305–331.

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Xiaofan Liang (2026). What and How Should Urban Planners Learn in the AI Era? Exploring Urban AI Pedagogy from a Pilot Course in Urban Planning Education. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 0739456X261436057.

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Xiaofan Liang (2026). From Infrastructure to Implications: Data Center 101 for Urban Planners. White Paper. University of Michigan.

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Xiaofan Liang, Perry Yang (2025). Transforming Mobility Barriers to Connectivity: Examining the Impact of the AeroATL Greenway Plan in Reconnecting Communities Around Aerotropolis Atlanta. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2680(6), 59-73.

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Xiaofan Liang, Brian Brainerd, Tara Hicks, Clio Andris (2024). Lessons from a Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning Approach for Identifying Vacant, Abandoned, and Deteriorated Properties in Savannah, Georgia. Journal of Planning Education and Research.

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Xiaofan Liang, César A. Hidalgo, Pierre-Alexandre Balland, Siqi Zheng, Jianghao Wang (2024). Intercity Connectivity and Urban Innovation. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 109, 102092.

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Xiaofan Liang (2023). Connectivity for whom and at what cost: contesting network infrastructure duality in urban planning. PhD Thesis at Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Dipto Sarkar, Jan F Gogarten, Xiaofan Liang, Clio Andris, Emmanuel Abwa Opito, Kim Valenta, Urs Kalbitzer, Raja Sengupta, Colin a Chapman (2023). Impacts of COVID-19 on Biodiversity Conservation and Community Networks at Kibale National Park, Uganda. The Professional Geographer, 1-14.

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Xiaofan Liang, Joshua Baker, Daniel DellaPosta, Clio Andris (2023). Is Your Neighbor Your Friend? Scan Methods for Spatial Social Network (SSN) Hotspot Detection. Transactions in GIS, 27(3), 607-625.

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Snehalkumar ‘Neil’ S. Gaikwad, Shankar Iyer, Dalton Lunga, Takahiro Yabe, Xiaofan Liang, Bhavani Ananthabhotla, Nikhil Behari, Sreelekha Guggilam, Guanghua Chi (2022). Data-driven Humanitarian Mapping and Policymaking: Toward Planetary-Scale Resilience, Equity, and Sustainability. In Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD ’22), August 14–18, 2022, Washington, DC, USA (Workshop Summary).

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Xiaofan Liang, Seolha Lee, Hanzhou Chen, Benjamin De La Peña, Clio Andris (2022). Characteristics of Jetters and Little Boxes: An Extensibility Study Using the Neighborhood Connectivity Survey. Social Inclusion, 10(3).

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Xiaofan Liang, Yuhao Kang (2021). A Review of Spatial Network Insights and Methods in the Context of Planning: Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities. In book: Urban Informatics and Future Cities (pp.71-91).

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Xiaofan Liang, Clio Andris (2021). Measuring McCities: Landscapes of chain and independent restaurants in the United States. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 49(2), 585-602.

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